How is technology changing comedy?

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Question: How is technology changing comedy?

Rob Huebel: Well, I think technology is, like, playing a pretty big part in the way that people are sort of consuming comedy right now. I feel like it used to be that people would go home at, you know, 9:00 to tune into a certain TV show and catch it, you know, but now, with DVRs but, more importantly, the internet, just everything is on demand and so I think that affects what we do in the broadcasting world, like, I feel like so many people, you know, they're not going to adhere to the TV's schedule, why would they do that, you know, when they can just watch it online whenever they want? So things like iTunes, you know, YouTube, all that stuff is just changing, like, the delivery mechanism so I think that's a a big thing that's sort of changing the way we do things or not even changing the way we do things. It's more just, like, changing what our priorities are, you know? Like, I don't know that we get super worried about having eight billion people catch the show every week. Do that many people watch MTV? But, you know, so many people come up to us and they tell us that they've seen the show, blah, blah, blah, and you talk to them and then you find out, like, they start referencing, like, clips and specific things that it becomes clear that they saw it on the internet, you know? Which is-- that's fine, also. We'll take it.

Question: Is the Internet the new stand-up circuit?

Rob Huebel: I don't really do too much standup. One of the other guys in the group, Aziz, does a lot of standup and I think that-- but, I mean, as far as we're concerned, like, the internet is always great for marketing purposes like we don't really do, like, standup stuff and put that out there but, you know, we will put as many sketches as we can, you know, we'll leak that and put that online and try to get that on different comedy-related websites and stuff like that.

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